“Super Gay Poems” | The New Yorker

Hear and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our day by day e-newsletter to get one of the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.In 2024, Harvard College supplied a course on Taylor Swift. It was in style, to say the least. That course was taught by a professor and literary critic named Stephanie Burt. In The New Yorker, Burt has written severely about comics and science fiction, however she’s additionally thought of nice poets akin to Seamus Heaney and Mary Oliver. Now Burt has put collectively an anthology, titled “Tremendous Homosexual Poems.” It’s a set of L.G.B.T.Q. poetry, whose contents start after the Stonewall rebellion, in 1969. When describing the gathering, Burt tells the New Yorker Radio Hour producer Jeffrey Masters, “ There are poems the place we learn it and we are saying, ‘Wow, that’s me.’ And there are poems the place we learn it and we are saying, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that may occur; that’s not me; that’s new to me; that’s completely different.’ And there are poems the place we learn them and we simply say, ‘That’s lovely. That’s elegant. That’s humorous. That’s attractive. That’s sizzling. That’s so unhappy that I don’t know why I prefer it, however I do.’ And I like making these experiences out there to readers.”New episodes of The New Yorker Radio Hour drop each Tuesday and Friday. Observe the present wherever you get your podcasts.The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.